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      <h1>TechGeneral</h1>

      <p>I am Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist from Cape Town,
        South Africa.</p>

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      <p>Welcome to TechGeneral, my technology web log, where
        I talk about my wide-ranging interests in technology &mdash; you
        can see a bunch of the more common topics in the navigation
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